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Reviews Counted:137
Fresh:28
Rotten:109
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Al Pacino and Robert De Niro do their best to elevate this dowdy genre exercise, but even these two greats can't resuscitate the film's hackneyed script.
Theatrical Release:Sep 12, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $39,983,772
Synopsis: Academy Award® winners Robert De Niro (Raging Bull) and Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman) star as a pair of veteran New York City police detectives on the trail of a vigilante serial killer in the... [More]
Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis Jackson, Carla Gugino
Director: Jon Avnet
Imagine this conversation: A phone call between actor Bob De Niro and director Marty Scorsese. Bobby: Hello, Marty. I've been calling and texting, but you never answer. (Silence) Bobby: I'm talking to you. Are you talkin' to me? Are you talkin' to me?
Equally gritty old school crime thriller and flashy seductive post-modern whodunit noir, along with De Niro's off the job kinky rough sex lover forensic babe (Carla Gugino) who likes him to role play criminals in bed, Righteous Kill delivers the goods.
So somebody finally got De Niro and Pacino to co-star in a movie together and this is the best they could come up with?
Why on earth did these legends sign on board? Surely better scripts must get passed along the golf course?
This year, Bob and Al have chosen to do their latest, second-rate cop/thriller movie together. I suppose we owe them thanks for sparing us from having to sit through two separate stinkers.
The flick is nowhere near the level of Heat because of the predictability but it does deliver great performances and hilariously awkward dialogue.
Lazy, muddled and so misdirected it should be a felony itself, "Righteous Kill" is nothing but a cheap trick.
Al Pacino and Robert De Niro collect bloated paychecks with intent to bore in Righteous Kill, a slow-moving, ridiculous police thriller that would have been shipped straight to the remainder bin at Blockbuster if it starred anyone else.
Top CriticPredictable, badly written and ultimately disappointing, this distinctly below-average thriller would have gone straight to DVD if it weren't for De Niro and Pacino.
It's astonishing how much intensity and focus these two have lost, but the picture itself is not all that bad -- if you can get the collapsing-career thing out of your head.
Except for 50 Cent, who can't act a smidge, the actors are game but the script is tired.
The movie goes nowhere and takes 100 minutes to do so. It should have cut its losses, gone for comedy and called itself Grumpy Old Cops.
It's a dark day when Vito and Michael Corleone get upstaged by a New Kid on the Block.
Am I the only one who's concerned that two of America's greatest living actors are spending their golden years making mediocre to bad movies?
How not to dig into the experience of seeing two of cinema's greatest legends working side by side? Well, first we could focus on the plot:
Adequate and entertaining but sadly nothing more.
This one’s no Heat. More a pan of thin gruel brought to simmer.
Despite those major reservations, watching De Niro and Pacino is still an event.
Al Pacino and Robert De Niro seem to make this schlock palatable, but for everyone thinking Righteous Kill is going to be the next Heat, you're going to be left burnt. It's more like a bad episode of Law & Order.
A weak script from Russell Gewirtz and an all-too-predictable ending prevents Righteous Kill from ever being that picture-perfect dream match-up you would hope for and expect.
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Equally gritty old school crime thriller and flashy seductive post-modern whodunit noir, along with De Niro's off the job kinky rough sex lover forensic babe (Carla Gugino) who likes him to role play criminals in bed, Righteous Kill delivers the goods.
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